So I purchased a pre drilled 450 gallon acrylic 10x3x2 that has 2 corner overflows inside the tank. I will be picking it up in the next couple weeks. The previous owner has been absolutely awesome giving me time to make moving arrangements on my end. The tank will be going into storage until late spring/early summer while my family and I move. So this tank won't get set up until mid summer.
With all that being said I have some time to figure out filtration. Honestly speaking I have NO experience or knowledge with setting, using or maintaining sumps. The concept is intimidating to me as it seems there's the high potential of flooding. On my current tank (180) I use 2 fx5s and 3 ac 110s and I'm plenty happy with that. So my questions are will 4 fx5 on a 450 be suffice with a couple of well placed high powered power heads or should i continue to research and learn more about sumps? I thought about having someone set it up for me but in the event of something going wrong or even maintaining it I get nervous.
Stock will be 3-4 bass several large Severums and geos a few clown loaches and a couple of pearsei (stock may change)
With all that being said I have some time to figure out filtration. Honestly speaking I have NO experience or knowledge with setting, using or maintaining sumps. The concept is intimidating to me as it seems there's the high potential of flooding. On my current tank (180) I use 2 fx5s and 3 ac 110s and I'm plenty happy with that. So my questions are will 4 fx5 on a 450 be suffice with a couple of well placed high powered power heads or should i continue to research and learn more about sumps? I thought about having someone set it up for me but in the event of something going wrong or even maintaining it I get nervous.
Stock will be 3-4 bass several large Severums and geos a few clown loaches and a couple of pearsei (stock may change)